{"title":"Light-Induced Nonreciprocity: Directional Optical Bistability; Spectroscopy of Induced Anisotropy; Nonlinear Sagnac Effect","authors":"A. Kaplan","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.fb3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.fb3","url":null,"abstract":"In our recent research1, it was suggested that counter-propagating laser beams in a Kerr-nonlinear medium can induce intensity-dependent nonreciprocity which consists in different changes of refractive indecies for both of the waves. Under some conditions, this can result in such directionally asymmetrical effects as (i) directional bistability in a nonlinear ring resonator which allows one to switch the direction of propagation of a dominant mode and (ii) enhancement of the Sagnac effect in a rotating ring resonator.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122078720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Rushford, D. Weinberger, H. Gibbs, C. Li, N. Peyghambarian
{"title":"Room-Temperature Thermal Optical Bistability in Thin-Film Interference Filters and Dye-Filled Etalons","authors":"M. Rushford, D. Weinberger, H. Gibbs, C. Li, N. Peyghambarian","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.thb5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.thb5","url":null,"abstract":"Passive optical bistability in semiconductors was first seen in an interference filter with an intermediate layer of ZnS one-wavelength thick, and implied switch-on time of 200 μs.1 Thin-film interference filters may be potential practical bistable devices due to their room-temperature operation, extreme thinness, ease of production, and low-power operation.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115107760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Bowden, H. Gibbs, S. Mccall, M. Hamilton, W. J. Sandle
{"title":"Polarization Switching with Sodium Vapour in a Fabry-Perot","authors":"C. Bowden, H. Gibbs, S. Mccall, M. Hamilton, W. J. Sandle","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115413069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radiation Pressure Induced Optical Bistability","authors":"A. Dorsel, P. Meystre, E. Vignes, H. Walther","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.fc4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.fc4","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last few years optical bistability has been predicted and/or observed in a number of configurations involving a nonlinear medium placed inside an interferometer and irradiated by a laser field1.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"245 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121701619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optically-Induced Bistability in a Nematic Liquid Crystal","authors":"H. Ong, R. Meyer","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124157200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selfpulsings, Hysteresis and Chaos in a Standing Wave Laser","authors":"L. A. Kotomtseva, N. Loiko, A. M. Samson","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.thb40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.thb40","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the system of semi-classical equations analysis and the numerical experiment, the temporal nature of the standing wave laser generation has been studied. It is shown that such a laser is a dynamic system in which, along with the selforganization processes leading to regular continuous pulsings /1/, stochastization of the strange attractor type is possible /2/. This diversified behaviour is due to the competition and interrelation of factors accounting for the steadystate behaviour instability. These factors are the development of nutation oscillations due to the coherent properties of the active medium and interaction of counterruning waves on the gain and losses inhomogeneities in the cavity differing in physical nature.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125187700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polarization Switching with J = 1 2 to J = 1 2 Atoms in a Ring Cavity","authors":"W. J. Sandle, M. Hamilton, R. Ballagh","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"118 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113970111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cyclotron Bistability of Electrons in Vacuum and Semiconductors","authors":"A. Kaplan","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.thb19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.thb19","url":null,"abstract":"The feasibility of an optical cyclotron bistability of free electrons in vacuum as well as of conductive electrons in semiconductors is discussed. It was recently shown by us1 that the cyclotron bistability of the free electrons can be based on the dependence of a cyclotron frequency of forced oscillations on the relativistic mass of the electron and, hence, on its momentum (or kinetic energy). It was also suggested that1 the analogous effect could be feasible in semiconductors whose conductive electrons have a particularly strong dependence of their effective masses on energy (or momentum) of their excitation. The main advantageous features of the cyclotron bistability in semiconductors is that (i) the effective mass of electrons in some semiconductors (e.g. InSb) is very small which results in a considerable decrease of a required magnet field for a given resonant frequency, and (ii) the nonlinearity associated with conductive electrons in semiconductors is by many orders of magnitude larger than the relativistic nonlinearity of free electrons, which allows for a fairly low critical pumping intensity, even if taking into consideration a faster relaxation time in semiconductors.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115556380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chaos in Optical Bistability","authors":"M. Derstine, H. Gibbs, F. Hopf, D. L. Kaplan","doi":"10.1364/obi.1983.wc1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1364/obi.1983.wc1","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments on chaos in a hybrid optically bistable system with delayed feedback are presented. Special attention is paid to the connection of these experiments to the issue of what chaos is, and why it has recieved such considerable attention in recent years.","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132480981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Driving Laser Fluctuations on Optical Bistability","authors":"C. R. Willis","doi":"10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4718-7_28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114315,"journal":{"name":"Topical Meeting on Optical Bistability","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126042247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}